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Originally Posted by Rick Lee
I was watching a documentary on the Secret Service two weeks ago. A retired agent was telling a story about guarding Ronald Reagan's motorcade coming through some small town when one of the onlookers, a teenager, raised what looked like a pistol and pointed it toward one of the vehicles. SS agent had his Uzi trained on him, was seconds away from killing this kid when he realized the kid had a squirt gun. They later found out the kid had done it on a dare. Amazing how they can show such restraint, yet local cops get a "man with a gun" call, which any equally crazy person could have made, and kill the guy without even verifying the gun. Unreal. Too bad the lawsuit won't be paid out of the cops' paychecks or pensions.
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Idiotic Post.
your "SS Agent" probably had ONE (1) shoot/don't shoot in his entire LE career and he chose not to shoot. Yipee. Did he "show restraint" or was he too scared s h it -less to pull the trigger and eliminate the threat?
Hard working "local cops" in high activity/high crime areas in Southern California (like Long Beach) experience several "shoot/don't shoots" per year. Sometimes several times in one month. Hey Rick, you ever work a 14 day gang sweep???? I didn't think so. Ever do a parole search on a criminal outlaw motorcycle gang location and confront a room full of Ex-Cons with immediate access to multiple weapons??? I didn't think so.
Tonight, while I'm out trying to keep a neighborhood safe, if I confront a subject whom I perceive to be an armed suspect and I shoot and kill him, only to find out later that he was actually pointing a cell phone at me, I can only hope that you aren't sitting on my jury.
I know that almost all citizens respect the job that I do and give me the benefit of the doubt that I will do it to the best of my ability.
And thanks for the final insult about the officer's "paycheck and pension" being forfeited to pay the lawsuit settlement.
Have a nice day, Rick.